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Installed RH 7.1 a couple of days ago and I am pleasantly pleased. Using KDE for the first time and I love it. But now that I'm up and running, it's time to redo the kernel. I have a server running RH 6.2, so I'm familiar with the process. However, when I try to "make bzImage", i get the following:
[root@localhost linux-2.4]# make bzImage
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/split-include scripts/split-include.c
make: gcc: Command not found
make: *** [scripts/split-include] Error 127
So, my question is, what is the name of the package that contains bzImage?
There isn't a package that contains bzImage. It is a product of your kernel compile.
Your problem may reside with your compiler. RH7.0 was shipped with a bad compiler (gcc). I don't know if 7.1 has fixed the problem, but it's an easy fix for you to do manually. You just have to change the compiler from gcc to kgcc. Just make sure you have the latest egcs package installed.
In the Makefile for your kernel source, change the following line, which is about 18 lines down, including blank lines.
Made the change to Makefile. Unfortunately I need more packages installed to use kgcc. I haven't installed them yet due to the missing dependencies. Will work on it later this week. Right now I'm getting use to using KDE, and loving it. Since I've used Linux the past 2 years with no GUI, I didn't realize how fun a GUI is in Linux. I'll repost with an update later.
This is no cure for your problem, but I ran into a compiling situation and maybe someone can give me some advice.
I want to compile my Mandrake 8.0 with the 2.4.4 kernel, and reading the kernel Howto page on compiling it stated to put the kernel tarball file into the /usr/src directory as long as no /usr/src/linux directory is listed there.
But after untarring the source and reading the README file, it say DO NOT put untar it there but to put it in maybe your /home directory.
Now that really confused me, so what do you linux pro's say to this? I need some help with this situation.
Distribution: Slackware 10, Fedora Core 3, Mac OS X
Posts: 617
Rep:
a cunning plan...
make a new folder in /usr/src/ called 'newkernel'.
untar it there and do the compile etc. there then after restarting and all compile being fine, make sure that the ymbolic link linux points to newkernel
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